I have a pretty vanilla 4.9 i386 system that I've even reinstalled a couple of times to combat this issue, but to no avail. It's installed with base, etc, man, comp and packages bash, vim--no_x11, curl.

And the last error goes on for 68 times before make exits. I must be missing something because this is happening on fresh systems with unpolluted source trees. I've also tried without the make depend since that's what the docs do, same issue.

I've found some list posts describing the same issue but none had a solution for my situation, one discussion just ended with no resolution posted.

Having seen your latest post to misc@, if you are wanting to install OpenBSD 5.0 on a CF card to be inserted into an Alix system, it will be far simpler to set up a PXE & TFTP server, & boot the Alix system from it.

The PXE/TFTP server can be running OpenBSD 4.9 while hosting the 5.0 bsd.rd installation kernel. This information is described in Section 6.10 of the FAQ.